Independent Living for Seniors

Congratulations to Indepemdent Living for Seniors for being selected as a GRIPA Connect Office in the Spotlight. This column features GRIPA Connect Clinical Integration offices who are finding the GRIPA Connect Web Portal useful for patient care.

Independent Living for Seniors (ILS) is now fully utilizing the GRIPA Connect ePrescribing system (DrFirst) within the GRIPA Connect Portal for all of their prescriptions.

Homecare personnel can now look in DrFirst to see where in the process the prescription is, to help coordinate with CHN and the delivery of the medication to the patient. “We are experiencing less delay in getting new medications,” Robin Leckinger, LPN

Complete medication profiles have been entered on each ILS participant which allows them to print an up to date medication profile for any participant seen in the clinic. “DrFirst is easy to access and makes printing med lists for patients simple, our providers can make drug changes and the medication lists are updated instantaneously,” Dolores Forbes, RN

Any provider who has contact with an ILS participant can access up to date medication lists if they utilize GRIPA’s ePrescribing application. “Now when I get a call from one of the community nurses with a question about medications, I can look at DrFirst and get the answer immediately,” Kathy DeVries, LPN

“We had great support from GRIPA staff in transitioning to the new ePrescribing system within the GRIPA Connect Portal. This has allowed a more seamless method of prescribing medications for our participants and has greatly increased our ability to communicate within our system,” Anne Olinger, MD